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The Mission of the Institute is to provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write in order to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to national defense.

Seizing on the only victory to date from his $447 billion jobs bill, President Obama signed legislation Monday that gives businesses tax breaks for hiring veterans and waives a withholding fee for government contractors.

President Hamid Karzai received a resounding endorsement Saturday from a traditional national assembly to negotiate a security agreement that could keep a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan past 2014.

Gunmen boarded two fishing vessels just off the coast of Nigeria and took two people hostage, security sources said, the latest in a series of hijackings in the waters around Africa's largest oil business.